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Essential equipment for all serious winetasters! All the most basic tasting terms in French, German, Italian and Spanish (complete with intuitive phonetic pronunciations). Mind-jogging visual aid to identifying aromas and flavours (also in French, German, Italian and Spanish) and the chemical compounds (found in wine) responsible for each one. Indispensable conversion tables: ever been stuck in the middle of a sweltering vineyard and wanted to convert tons per acre into hectolitres or vice-versa? Forget about tons or tonnes, what about quintals? Talking acidity and the winemaker is expressing it as sulphuric when you're used to tartaric? Or vice-versa? Discussing weather or winemaking temperatures and need to convert between Farenheit and Celsius? The Winetaster's Ultimate Survival Kit is an invaluable aid when visiting vineyards and wineries. Don't leave home without it!